What are the responsibilities and job description for the Engineer – Network Observability Platform and Automation position at Digital Realty?
Job Description
Position Title: Engineer – Network Observability Platform and Automation
Location: Hybrid: Austin, Dallas, Boston, Ashburn, Atlanta
Your role
In this role, you will support the development of data-driven visibility, monitoring, and analytics tools across a large-scale service provider network. This position is ideal for recent graduates with strong interests in data science, network automation, and web portal development. You will work closely with experienced engineers to build dashboards, automate workflows, integrate telemetry sources, and enhance the organization’s overall network observability capabilities. The role provides broad exposure to networking technologies, software development, and operational analytics.
What You’ll Do
Technical Architecture & Implementation
Technical Foundation
Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300 facilities in 50 metros across 25 countries on six continents.
To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter .
Our IT team is at the heart of our business. We develop infrastructures, design and build networks, support servers and provide the first line of support by delivering rich connectivity for our customers. With new data centers coming online all the time, it’s a rapidly changing technical environment so our team is always ready to innovate and take the lead on projects. We constantly develop, deploy and support vital networks and data services that drive business performance and improve life for customers around the globe.
What We Can Offer You
Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.
Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.
Apply today, take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.
Health and Safety
Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals - they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.
Our Compensation Philosophy
Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.
Position Title: Engineer – Network Observability Platform and Automation
Location: Hybrid: Austin, Dallas, Boston, Ashburn, Atlanta
Your role
In this role, you will support the development of data-driven visibility, monitoring, and analytics tools across a large-scale service provider network. This position is ideal for recent graduates with strong interests in data science, network automation, and web portal development. You will work closely with experienced engineers to build dashboards, automate workflows, integrate telemetry sources, and enhance the organization’s overall network observability capabilities. The role provides broad exposure to networking technologies, software development, and operational analytics.
What You’ll Do
Technical Architecture & Implementation
- Assist in deploying and improving monitoring dashboards using Splunk, ScienceLogic, IP Fabric, Grafana, or internal platforms.
- Help build and maintain full-stack portal features, including front-end components and backend data services.
- Integrate telemetry from network devices, APIs, logs, and databases into analytic workflows.
- Support multi-vendor environments by validating monitoring coverage for Cisco, Juniper, Arista, and Fortinet devices.
- Work closely with senior engineers on observability pipelines, dashboards, and automation tools.
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and team learning sessions to grow your technical skills.
- Contribute to internal documentation and knowledge-sharing resources.
- Analyze alerts and telemetry to help identify anomalies and performance issues.
- Assist in creating datasets and visualizations for post-incident reviews.
- Help refine alerting thresholds, log parsing, and monitoring logic to improve signal quality.
- Develop Python scripts, API integrations, and Ansible playbooks to automate operational tasks.
- Contribute to CI/CD workflows that support observability tools and portal components.
- Help design scalable pipelines for data ingestion, normalization, and visualization.
Technical Foundation
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
- Working proficiency in Python, including pandas, NumPy, API integration, and automation scripting.
- Basic understanding of databases (SQL and/or NoSQL) and data modeling.
- Foundational networking knowledge (IP addressing, routing basics, VLANs, common protocols).
- Exposure to data visualization tools (Grafana, Splunk, Tableau, Kibana, Jupyter, etc.).
- Interest in or experience with portal/web development (React, Angular, Vue, Django, Flask, Node.js).
- Comfortable using Linux environments and Git.
- Strong interest in modern observability tools, telemetry pipelines, and data-driven monitoring.
- Ability to analyze datasets, identify trends, and propose ideas based on data insights.
- Curiosity about cloud networking, telemetry standards, automation, and network analytics.
- Analytical Thinking: Ability to interpret data and identify patterns or anomalies.
- Technical Curiosity: Desire to learn networks, automation, and observability frameworks.
- Problem-Solving: Breaks down complex problems with guidance from senior engineers.
- Collaboration: Works effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Communication: Able to present findings clearly to technical peers and stakeholders.
Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300 facilities in 50 metros across 25 countries on six continents.
To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter .
Our IT team is at the heart of our business. We develop infrastructures, design and build networks, support servers and provide the first line of support by delivering rich connectivity for our customers. With new data centers coming online all the time, it’s a rapidly changing technical environment so our team is always ready to innovate and take the lead on projects. We constantly develop, deploy and support vital networks and data services that drive business performance and improve life for customers around the globe.
What We Can Offer You
Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.
Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.
Apply today, take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.
Health and Safety
Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals - they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.
Our Compensation Philosophy
Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.
Salary : $120,000 - $130,000